Practice NurseNHS

Job summary

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice has a fantastic opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to join our team on either a full-time or part-time basis, with hours and days negotiable.

Main duties of the job

The main responsibilities of the role include:

• Undertaking health assessments, administering medication and treatments, and performing diagnostic tests.
• Providing and evaluating a range of health interventions to ensure that patients health and social care needs are met.
• General health and well-being promotion as well as creating individual, person-centred plans for patients with, or at risk of, a long term condition.
• Managing and treating long-term conditions, in line with national and local policies and the practice needs.
• Reviewing medication for therapeutic effectiveness, in accordance with evidence-based practice as well as national and practice protocols; working with patients to support their adherence to prescribed treatments.
• Prioritising health problems and intervening appropriately, to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
• Supporting and managing the health needs of women presenting for sexual health and contraception, and cervical cytology consultations.
• Implementing, and participating in, vaccination and immunisation programmes for both adults and children, including patients travelling abroad.
• Meeting the needs of patients presenting for opportunistic wound care.
• Hypertension review and management.
• Running asthma, COPD and diabetes clinics and reviews.
• New patient and health checks.

Job description

If you would like to find out more information about this role, please see the attached job specification.

About us

Ambrose Avenue Group Practice is a busy general practice based across two sites (Ambrose Avenue and Tollgate) in Colchester.We are a large, dynamic team offering a stimulating and welcoming environment, caring for over 14,000 patients.We have 4 GP partners, 2 salaried GPs, 1 ANP, 2 nurse practitioners (soon to be ANPs), 1 diabetic nurse, 2 practice nurses, 2 HCAs, 1 H&W Coach, 1 GP assistant, 1 phlebotomist, 1 clinical pharmacist, 2 pharmacy technicians, and a wonderful team of administration staff.We use clinical systems such as SystmOne, Anima and Accurx and we are committed to training and developing both clinical and non-clinical teams.

We offer a competitive salary with appropriately agreed annual leave, according to length of service, plus bank holidays.Our ethos is to achieve and outstanding work-life balance while offering our patients the best possible service.Supporting your work-life balance and professional development is essential to us, so we will be happy to discuss and requirements for flexible working and offer the following benefits:

• Competitive salary based on experience
• Supportive and friendly environment
• Peer support
• CPD support with training and development.

Come and work with us and make a difference to patient care at Ambrose!